Wills Lab

We are a dev bio lab at UW led by Dr. Andrea Wills, focusing on mechanisms of X. tropicalis development and regeneration 🐸 est. 2015. Run by @SwearerAvery

[Wills Lab @WillsLabFroggos]

Meet the Wills Lab! We study regeneration and development in Xenopus in a variety of ways. 🐸 #Regeneration #Xenopus #Chromatin #Genomics #CellFateDecisions #Hypoxia #Mitosis #NuclearMorphology #LipidDroplets #Macrophages #NeuralProgenitors #ROS

[Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) @MBLScience]

Excited to announce that our 2025 Advanced Research Training Course schedule is up and applications are open! 🎉🎉🎉

See you in Woods Hole! https://t.co/9cAcnqoAfG

[Wills Lab @WillsLabFroggos]

Check out our new preprint investigating progenitor patterning after Xenopus spinal cord injury! 🐸🧠🔬@SwearerAvery

[biorxiv_devbio @biorxiv_devbio]

Shh signaling directs dorsal ventral patterning in the regenerating X. tropicalis spinal cord https://t.co/K4AKtmcI9x #biorxiv_devbio

[Wills Lab @WillsLabFroggos]

Happy (belated) Halloween from the Wills Lab! Ft famous frogs such as Frog and Toad, King Harold from Shrek, Michigan J. Frog, and more! 🐸🎃

[Developmental Biology @Dev_Bio_Journal]

Jeet Patel won DB’s Best Paper Award and is presenting it at the @SocDevBio’s #2023SDB meeting in Chicago!

“Hif1α and Wnt are required for posterior gene expression during Xenopus tropicalis tail regeneration”

Find it here: https://t.co/zo3qKNvPBi

[NWDB Meeting @nwdb2024]

Registration is open for the 55th NWDB regional meeting, held virtually March 16-18th, 2022. All short talks by trainee groups coached by NWDB PIs. Low or no registration fees. #NWDB2022 https://t.co/vxp56PEvjX

[Cell Press @CellPressNews]

"Elevated pentose phosphate pathway flux supports appendage regeneration"
@WillsLabFroggos

Read more in @CellReports: https://t.co/nCTISUR1M9

[Wills Lab @WillsLabFroggos]

We’re hiring! 🐸 The Wills Lab is looking for a lab manager. Apply at https://t.co/jijlUwPTnj

[Developmental Biology @Dev_Bio_Journal]

#DBfeature #Xenopus🐸

Hif1α and Wnt are required for posterior gene expression during Xenopus tropicalis tail regeneration
by Jeet Patel, Andrea Wills et al @pateljeet1224 @WillsLabFroggos

Hif1α regulates Wnt activity & #AnteroPosteriorPatterning

https://t.co/0OmHRJ2N06

[Seattle MCB Program @MCBSeattle]

Happening TODAY - @pateljeet1224's defense!
Title: Metabolic and transcriptional rewiring required for regeneration in Xenopus tropicalis
Lab: Wills lab (UW)
When: Monday, Aug. 8, 2:30 p.m. PDT
Where: UW Health Sciences Building K069 & Zoom (email [email protected] for link)

[Anneke Kakebeen @AnnekeKakebeen]

It's going to be #RegeneGREAT

[Jeet Patel @pateljeet1224]

So excited to wrap up this body of work (as wrapped up as anything in research can be 😅, lots of fun projects in the works for rotation students starting in @MCBSeattle and @UWBiochemistry in the fall)! If you'd like the zoom link, you can DM or join us in person!

[DevelopmentalDynamic @DevelopmentalDy]

Look who also visited to pose with their artwork. @AnnekeKakebeen who made the #xenopus tropicalis staging series poster for @DevelopmentalDy Stop by and pick up a copy if you are at #SDB2022

[Michael Levin @drmichaellevin]

https://t.co/HRtBbyZgNB - review of Child's theory of metabolic regionalisation in developmental and regenerative patterning
@WillsLabFroggos

[Wills Lab @WillsLabFroggos]

Shoutout to Kaycie Opiyo, Daniel Ong, and Ashi Jain for their amazing poster presentations at the UW Undergraduate Research Symposium!

[Wills Lab @WillsLabFroggos]

We’re hiring! 🐸 The Wills Lab is looking for a lab manager. Apply by 5 pm on 2/28 at https://t.co/rbdPlNxrd2

[NWDB Meeting @nwdb2024]

Excited to welcome everyone to a trainee-focused program for #NWDB2022, happening online March 16-18th. Abstract deadline March 1. Trainee SDB members attend free! Check out https://t.co/iElEdgEMLr details and registration.

[Jeet Patel @pateljeet1224]

Latest publication from @WillsLabFroggos in @Dev_Bio_Journal is officially out! This is part of a series of cool experiments driven by an interest in HIF1a from my rotation with @millerlab, but this is the only #regeneGREAT one (so far). https://t.co/BakYK1cY4n

[Anneke Kakebeen @AnnekeKakebeen]

My first postdoc work from the Niswander lab is online! Here I present a review synthesizing what we know about lesser studied micronutrients in neural tube defects. #GeneEnvironment https://t.co/8O4x8FLw9N

[Wills Lab @WillsLabFroggos]

We’re celebrating Andrea in lab today with some frog-themed cookies- @UWBiochemistry department voted in favor of tenure! 🐸🎉 #xenopus #regenGreat

[UW Biochemistry @UWBiochemistry]

Dr Andrea Wills @willslabfroggos, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, will give a Science in Medicine New Investigator Lecture on Monday, October 18 at 11 am, D209 Turner Auditorium or Zoom https://t.co/Q9wYeT67uv

https://t.co/7ZAiqNNljI